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Atlanta Housing Authority

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W hen Atlanta lost the highly sought-after federal Choice grant awards in 2014, to say city leaders were disappointed would put it mildly. Atlanta had been one of six finalists for the $30 million neighborhood revitalization grants that ended up being awarded to four cities – Columbus, Ohio; Norwalk, Conn.; Philadelphia, Pa.; and Pittsburgh, Pa.

Collectively, they have created the Georgia Aquarium and Home Depot, launched MARTA and saved Grady Memorial Hospital. They fought for civil rights and helped eradicate disease. They have helped make Atlanta a better place to live. They are the senior statesmen of a generation of business and civic leaders and philanthropists, a group that includes Bernie Marcus, Arthur Blank, and Ted Turner, that helped shape the city and solve some of its biggest problems.

Halting demolition of 20 Hilliard St., a 1910 building in the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic District, was just the first half of a victory for preservationists. Now an advisory group will work with the Atlanta Housing Authority to save the site known as the Trio Laundry building.

PHILADELPHIA - A delegation of 111 metro Atlanta leaders, who just returned from a study mission to Philadelphia, learned how Drexel University hopes to bridge its campus with its surrounding community by building over rail yards near the 30th Street Amtrak train station. It did not take long for the delegation, traveling on the annual Atlanta Regional Commission trip that explores how other regions address the very issues facing Atlanta, for key local leaders to see a direct parallel between what Drexel is planning and “the Gulch” in downtown Atlanta between the Five Points MARTA station and Philips Arena.